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District Court

These sentences were recorded in June in the Carroll County General District Court Office, Hillsville. Sentences may be appealed:

A private company that sought to provide natural gas service to the Twin Counties has stepped aside as a Carroll County government-led project proceeds.
Frontier Natural Gas had sought to fill the natural gas gap when Atmos Energy failed to provide service for years.
Frontier had petitioned the State Corporation Commission to install a natural gas system in the Carroll County and Hillsville area, where there is an existing access port in the Patriot pipeline.

HILLSVILLE — Town officials say that Hillsville is one of two possible locations being considered by a nationally known screen printing company.
If the company chooses to locate in Hillsville, it could mean a capital investment of between $1 and $2.5 million by the yet-unnamed entity, depending on whether it buys or leases the building, and the creation of up to 40 jobs, according to Mayor Greg Crowder.

INDEPENDENCE – Grayson County deputies Doug Waller and Kevin Watson were honored during a joint ceremony on Aug. 9 by both the county supervisors and the sheriff for their heroic actions.
Grayson Sheriff Richard Vaughan opened the recognition by describing the events that unfolded on June 26 in the Fairview community, which resulted in Waller being shot.
Vaughan said Waller and Watson were responding to a domestic dispute call on Skyline Highway at 10:43 that evening.

Wandering around
The experience I had at [a convenience store] was horrible. There were non-employees cleaning the establishment and coming out of the back with other employees at the same time. There have been many times when guys have been loitering in the store in the morning hours. I can’t believe the establishment would allow this.

HILLSVILLE — It’s probably no coincidence that Pulaski County’s recreational park and pool has nationally known restaurants and a big box store that located nearby, a supporter of a new pool told Carroll County supervisors Monday evening.
Those businesses in Dublin came along after the county created Randolph Park, noted Lisa Payne Delp. It’s likely that the pool and its 51,000 visitors led to growth and jobs in that locality.

At an annual political event on Saturday, political candidates got an earful of mountain music and local issues.
The somewhat ironically named Poor Man’s Dinner — it reflects the humble Southern fare on the menu, not the financial status of the attendees — is an annual tradition during Galax’s annual Old Fiddlers’ Convention.
Over 350 politicians from all over Virginia, political candidates and community leaders from attended the picnic in Felts Park on Saturday, sponsored by the Twin County Regional Chamber of Commerce.

INDEPENDENCE — Grayson County will delay its next reassessment to defer some of the costs, at a time when real estate values remain steady.
County Administrator Jonathan Sweet spoke briefly about the recommendation during the board’s regular meeting Aug. 9.
Sweet said supervisors did an exceptional job of deferring expenses during the 2012-13 budget preparation process.
One of the by-products of the discussion of deferring costs is a plan to change the county’s reassessment schedule.

A North Carolina man was found dead inside a car at a Blue Ridge Parkway overlook on Aug. 3, the same day the vehicle was reported stolen.
The Carroll County Sheriff’s Department reports that a witness saw the car parked at the Sugarloaf Overlook, near parkway milepost 204, for several hours. The witness found that suspicious, and called police.
Carroll Sheriff J.B. Gardner said that when deputies responded, they found the body of Michael Jackson Willard, 43, of Mount Airy, N.C., in the car.